It became a political and economic war pitting corporate America against its citizens — The 50s and 60s middle school way of life included hiding under desks for protection from nuclear annihilation. These kids’ government, parents, and grandparents lied to them about drugs. “One pull on a marijuana cigarette and you’ll be hooked for life.” Most of them couldn’t make sense of the Vietnam…

Deep space, approximately 1 billion miles from Harbinger, 11:34 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 29 Supreme Arbiter’s quarters, 6:35 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com Control panels bobbed back and forth on flexible stalks as Enrique punched toddler-toy-sized buttons with pudgy exoskeleton fingers, causing See Lurchin’ to disappear toward the distant bauble in a half-billion mile leap.

Supreme Arbiter’s quarters, 6:35 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 28 Deep space, approximately 1 billion miles from Harbinger, 5:03 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com Wundee found an undamaged control panel and hacked into the secured-area management system to get the lay of the land. As he suspected, levels surrounding the spherical cavity were for disposal and long-term storage. …

Deep space, approximately 1 billion miles from Harbinger, 5:03 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 27, Episode 2 Center of the Forward Cylinder, Tuesday, December 7, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com Vince was on the beach in Mexico. He and Maria were saving Laura Dunworth from drowning, but the scene was frozen. Maria had been replaced by a dolphin with arms and the tail split into legs instead of a fin. The feet, if they were feet, hid beneath the water…

Center of the Forward Cylinder, Tuesday, December 7, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmate World: Chapter 27, Episode 1 Top of the Forward Cylinder, 6:52 P.M., Tuesday, December 7, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com “Chrome Dome, stay inside the airlock,” said Wundee. “Keep an eye out both ways in the tube. Let us go investigate.” Chrome Dome went back into the airlock, returned it to vacuum, cracked the outer door, extruded two slender optical fibers from his collection of delicate appendages, and pointed one…

Top of the Forward Cylinder, 6:52 P.M., Tuesday, December 7, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 26 Center of the 25 millionth level of the Forward Cylinder of Harbinger, 4:47 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com Wundee parked the squadron of stasis cruisers near the upper edge of the Forward Cylinder. He assembleed the crew he wantsed— some of the 3rd Light Mounted and several squadron crewmembers, seven in all. He put Circuit Breaker second in command should anything happen to him. The ships’ armories disgorged…

Center of the 25 millionth level of the Forward Cylinder of Harbinger, 4:47 A.M., Wednesday, December 8, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 25, Episode 2 Forward Spoke Seven of Harbinger, 15 degrees above the centerline of the equator, Monday, December 6, 2145 A.D.glenhendrix50.medium.com In the center of a de-activated stasis field, a vertical sarcophagus of lead lined with a thick layer of polyethylene plastic split in two. The halves moved apart revealing what appeared to be a living Kolpak released from a silvery stasis tomb. Maxlux made his way to a vertical shaft…

Forward Spoke Seven of Harbinger, 15 degrees above the centerline of the equator, Monday, December 6, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 25, Episode 1 Approaching Forward Spoke Seven of Harbinger, 15 degrees above the centerline of the equator, 7:16 P.M., Monday…glenhendrix50.medium.com The Forty-Fifth Tactical Expunction Squadron of the Free Machine Action Committee’s 7th Air Force changed its course from horizontal to vertical. Falling platoon members reversed their direction to make the squadron’s job of picking them up easier. The eight cruisers were zeppelin-shaped, double-hulled stasis field ships 90 feet in diameter…

Approaching Forward Spoke Seven of Harbinger, 15 degrees above the centerline of the equator, 7:16 P.M., Monday, December 6, 2145 A.D. — Transmat World An introductionglenhendrix50.medium.com Transmat World: Chapter 24 Approaching Forward Spoke Seven of Harbinger, 15 degrees above the centerline of the equator, 7:15 P.M., Monday…glenhendrix50.medium.com Wundee dived away from the See Lurchin’, gravity generators maxed. His ass-end pointed toward the ship presented a circular profile the size of an orange. Within seconds he was indistinguishable from the visual clutter of landscape on the inner surface of Harbinger’s gargantuan Rim.